Friday, July 23, 2010

The Money Quote™: "There is no Darwin Conspiracy"

AnswersinGenesis weighs in -- a source xn-etc accepts as authoritative!!!

Here's one of the "accusations" made in the Davies book.

"Next, Davies turned his attention to Darwin’s Journal of Researches, known better to modern readers as Voyage of the Beagle. Originally published in 1839, the book was reissued in a revised edition in 1845. In the interim between the two editions, Darwin had worked to develop his species theory, and the revised edition of Journal of Researches contained new interpretations of Darwin’s original observations.... Davies implied that this was a means for Darwin to establish priority by giving the impression that he was already thinking about evolution aboard the Beagle before he ever read Blyth or Matthew.

H o w e v e r . . .

The Money Quote (TMQ): "As Christians concerned with presenting the truth, creationists should avoid Davies’s conspiracy theory. Love him or hate him, Darwin was the author of his theory of evolution by natural selection."

"Good evidence now exists to show that Darwin ‘borrowed’... all or most of his ‘dear child’ from other researchers. They were not ‘his own brainchild’, nor his child, but that of others which he appropriated, evidently often without giving them proper credit."

I have just never gotten used to the way ironic and irony is used today. Their meaning has morphed in the last 10-15 years.

Ironic used to mean, e.g., a person buys an insurance policy but the flood occurs the day before the policy kicks in. Or, a person steals a car in Philadelphia, meanwhile, someone is stealing his car in Toronto -- that sort of thing.

2. Gay Pride Parades are delusional leftist undertakings and are frequented by politicians who are either delusionally leftist themselves, or who have succumbed to the inexorable social pressure to "get with it" and stop being a hateful bigot.

It is quite clear that not only is your definition of a "leftist" somebody who thinks/does something that you don't like, but that your definition of "delusional" is thinking or (for an even more idiosyncratic definition) doing anything that you don't like.

According to these idiosyncratic and trivial definitions, yes, all "lefists" are, quite trivially, "delusional".

The question is why anybody else should care?

No, "Gay Pride Parades" do not meet any credible definition of "delusional".

Further:

You have provided no evidence that "Joe Clark was and is a leftist guy".

You have provided no evidence that Henry Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett was a leftist.

You have provided no evidence that Hollywood is leftist.

You have provided no evidence that BP is leftist.

In fact you have provided neither consensus definitions, nor any factual evidence whatsoever, supporting any purported relationship between any meaningful conception of "leftist" and "delusion".

3. The ideology which has grown up to explain and celebrate the above.

1. Persons with homosexual desires are otherwise just like us, and redeemable.

2. Is sinful.

3. Is delusional.

Gay Pride Parades exist primarily to promote the ideology of homosexuality. Therefore, anyone who participates in them is participating in a delusion -- which I defined as viewing the world as you would like it to be, rather than the way it actually is.